Tuesday, 3 October 2017

Bernard of Claivaux on 'present day' lukewarmness about Christ...

"When I reflect, as I often do, on the ardor with which the patriarchs longed for the incarnation of Christ, I am pierced with sorrow and shame. And now I can scarcely contain my tears, so ashamed am I of the lukewarmness and lethargy of the present times. For which of us is filled with joy at the realization of this grace as the holy men of old were moved to desire by the promise of it?"

- Bernard of Clairvaux, Sermons on the Song of Songs, 2.I.1,
preached between 1135 -1153 AD